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The problem is that when others procrastinate and have difficult personalities, how can they complete tasks effectively?

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In the time management class , a friend asked a question: “We may have no problem managing our own time, but if the other party who performs the task together has a really difficult personality, how can we efficiently complete the task goal? What?” This question may be echoed in the article I recently wrote ” Time Management Q&A: Because I procrastinate, so even if I make a to-do list, I won’t do it? “.

When procrastination or stagnation, in addition to blaming yourself or other people’s personality problems, you may also try to think from the perspective of “what’s wrong with other people’s action processes” to help others solve simple problems, and often The method is more efficient, and even more effective in the end, allowing each other to grow.
Of course, if this person or this goal does not need our attention, then leave these right and wrong and save your energy!
But since we will struggle with this issue, it means that this person is worthy of our attention, and we want to achieve this matter. Maybe in addition to accumulating helplessness about personality, it is better to try some specific changes in behavior.
Because personality may be adapted to local conditions, we just need to recall our own experience. We may like to procrastinate on some things but not others, and someone feels fierce but also has a pleasant side. What kind of personality?
In other words, the behavior patterns of people and things are actually complex and diverse, and can be changed.
But when defined by a seemingly fixed and unchangeable personality, it will become: ” Anyway, I just think that this should be done, and the other party should fully cooperate with me. If he can’t cooperate with me, it should be that there is something wrong with his personality. ” But in this case, is the other person’s personality getting in the way of getting things done, or is our lack of flexibility causing the stalemate?

Starting to solve problems with personality is very aggressive

Each of us is not a story character in a novel or news, but a living, flesh-and-blood person. I believe that most of us don’t like being “defined” by others, especially when the definition is negative (even Even if it is positive, it is not necessarily happy).
When someone says that we “just procrastinate”, we usually think like this:
  • But the other party is all temporary assignments?
  • But are there really many things?
  • But it wasn’t me who did it?
  • But is it that important?
There are often all kinds of grievances in my heart, and I will definitely not agree with the other party that I procrastinate, and may even not want to do this thing because of this (and gradually form the impression of procrastination).
So this kind of “personality definition” is very aggressive to oneself or others , and this kind of attack often only makes the other party more defensive and shrink back, even if the other party (or yourself) does it, it will stay. The emotional scars of being persecuted. (Extended reading, can be used on yourself or others: How to reduce self-criticism? Three small steps and work life cases )
So what can we do if we want to avoid the myth that we start with personality to define problems?

The so-called determination and perseverance are often the last problems to be solved (and often do not need to be solved)

I often discuss a simple case of management by objectives with students in the course: suppose a friend wants to pass an English license exam, and he arranges a study plan, but finds that he often lacks the determination and perseverance to implement it. What should he do at this time? What to do?
Although at first it seems that the problem is a lack of determination, I will first guide everyone to ask: “Compared with my current ability to pass this English certification exam, what problems are still unresolved?” At this time, it may lead to A few questions: What is my biggest weakness on this exam right now? Do I have effective ways to strengthen this weakness? If time is short, is there any alternative quick strengthening weakness technique? Are there any exam skills to practice for this licensure exam?
If I add the problem of my own lack of determination and arrange the order of the problems to be solved together, we will often find that the problem of “personality” is often the last to be solved . Compared with whether we have no determination, we should go first. Take a mock test to understand your weaknesses, or find some friends who have passed the exam to ask about preparation skills, and then you can test to see a few different ways to prepare and strengthen your weaknesses, and then you may need to take a few more mock exams Quiz to improve your exam technique.
That is to say, compared to “make up your mind-execute the study plan-pass the certificate”, in fact, the real process is often “solve a small problem-solve another small problem-solve another small problem-pass the certificate”.
“I’m going to make up my mind” is probably the last thing in the process that needs to be addressed.
Similarly, when facing other people’s procrastination, or feeling “as if” it is the other person’s difficult personality, maybe we can also use the same thinking to think: ” What are the problems in the actual implementation process, let us have a A solution. ” Overturn the thinking that we have a plan anyway, so we should follow the plan.

A bloody case of life

Let me share with you an example from my life.
For a while, we wanted to let the child help with housework, and we wanted to start with him being able to organize his own things, so we asked the child to wash the dishes and chopsticks he brought back from school after returning home. Children are of course very resistant at first, with various reasons for their reluctance, and sometimes even get angry because of it. And at the beginning, it is easy for parents to blurt out that you are really lazy, what is there to be angry about, and that you should be responsible for your own affairs, etc. It seems “simple” and “direct” Personality definition tags for .
However, in such a process, unless coercion or temptation (all kinds of threats and temptations) are adopted in the end, it will be difficult to truly achieve the goal that we want children to wash the dishes by themselves. Moreover, after deep introspection, I also think that I hope children will be responsible for themselves and not be lazy, but does the task achieved by such means really change and shape the personality of the child? I don’t think so.
And not only no, you will even hear the child start to say: I am lazy, I am angry and other types of responses. In addition to creating conflicts with each other, this process strengthens the personality that we do not want to appear in each other ,Why is this so?
Because in such a process, both of us actually have our own ways of action we want to take, and we also have our own difficulties, but I am not willing to adjust for the other party, and the other party does not know how to adjust for me . Attacking each other on the personality level, so I may have left an image of using power to force each other, and the other party has also left an image of myself as a certain personality.
Even if things are done, the rift between each other may become deeper and deeper, and a negative personality that may not necessarily exist is still being shaped.

How to start changing?

So what can be done at this time?
In the process of the bloody real case above, my own adjusted approach is:
Go back to the real thing, ask and analyze each other’s various small problems encountered in the entire action process, and adjust and change one by one.
For example, I find time to have a conversation with my child:
  • I asked him: If you go home, I hope you can take out the bowls and chopsticks in your schoolbag, wash the dishes by yourself, and help Dad, is that possible?
  • The child replied first: But I really want to play first when I get home, why can’t I play first?
  • I continued to ask: So what do you want to play first?
    • (First agree with the other party’s ideas and difficulties, and agree with the action steps the other party originally wanted)
  • The child said: I want to play with building blocks first.
  • I said: Then when do you want to arrange to wash the dishes by yourself? Because Mom and Dad really need your help to wash their dishes, so that we can save more time to play together at night.
  • The child said: Then I will wash my own dishes after playing with the building blocks.
    • (First agree with the other party’s plan, and then put forward your own needs, try to make the actions you need and the actions needed by the other party blend with each other)
  • I said: yes.
However, such an agreement would not necessarily be enforced, of course.
Then, maybe after I watched the child play with building blocks, I asked him further:
  • I said: Are you ready to play with the building blocks? Do you want to wash your dishes?
  • The child said: But I still want to play with building blocks?
  • I said: Dad is just about to cook dinner, how can you wash your dishes in the sink next to it, so that you can cook with dad, dad thinks that if you cook dinner with me, I will be very happy. What do you think?
    • (provide your own ideas, but also ask the other person’s ideas)
  • The child said: But I don’t know how to wash, why should I wash myself?
  • I said: “Then you can take the bowls and chopsticks out of the schoolbag first, and Dad will teach you how to make a lot of bubbles in the bowl. It’s very fun!”
    • (Understand the other party’s problem and try to solve the problem. In this example, the child may find this thing boring and he doesn’t know how to do it, so I want to make things more interesting)
The first big principle is that in such a process, we should not say any (hurtful) “personality judgments”, and we should not attribute things to “anyway, we can do it with determination”, but be sincere Understand the various questions raised by me and the other party, communicate with the other party, and try to find a mutually acceptable next step in the process of solving the problem .
In the process of implementation, I first asked the child to help how to smear a lot of bubbles in each bowl. After this step, I encouraged him to do a good job. Maybe this time I will help rinse first. Then when it’s time to wash the dishes next time, encourage him to rinse himself.
Repeat this several times, and every time the other party feels unwilling or gets stuck, adjust each other’s approach from the perspective of “solving the problem together” , and as a result, you will have the opportunity to get such feedback:
  • The child said: I can wash the dishes and chopsticks by myself now, because I have grown up.
  • I said: Yes! You can be responsible for doing your own thing well!
    • (He did it himself, not we forced him to do it)
  • The child said: I didn’t want to do it before, but now I can do it myself. I didn’t know how to wash at first, but now you don’t have to help me.
  • I said: Really! Then let’s think about it together, what do you think you want to challenge next to see if you can do it well by yourself? How about arranging your own clothes?

Patiently reviewing the market and avoiding vicious circles is actually more effective time management

Sometimes, my wife will ask me why you are so patient. And my idea is that even if we want to “crash”, but require the other party to only act according to the plan I imagined, thinking that we are right and for the benefit of the other party, but the other party will do it, but this is really true. Is the result we want?
What’s more, how do I know that my plan is right, and what I think is really the best way?
What if you want to have a quick success, and in the end, everything becomes a conflict with each other in such a quick success, and each thinks that it is difficult for the other to change their personality, which causes more long-term damage?
And in the end, it may become that they are still delaying each other, encountering problems every time they do it, and finally falling into a vicious circle of stagnation for a longer period of time.
Conversely, if we first focus on understanding the small details of the entire action process of both parties (you can compare the ” KPT overturn ” method I often mention, here is his variant):
  • What course of action do I want? What course of action does the other party want?
  • What is the problem with each other?
  • How to adjust the new course of action for this problem?
Then, every time we discuss a small action change with each other, our goal is how to complete this matter under the condition of mutual acceptance, not to change the other party’s personality, not to make the other party follow my plan .
At this time, even if it can’t be done overnight, things are progressing gradually, which may be more effective time management.
In fact, although the above story is a true story, the process of communication and discussion between me and my child is the result of repeated communication and discussion in “many times of dishwashing tasks”. Each task is not so smooth, but it is also They have all made a little progress , and finally let the children like to wash dishes and recognize the value of completing this task by themselves.
But it is this kind of repeated revisions that finally allow each other to achieve some kind of change and growth. For example, the children themselves say that they have grown up. Moreover, such experience will become a reference for other tasks in the future and become a reproducible experience. That’s what we really want, isn’t it?
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